Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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I am going to hold off on my Athena SWAN question until the second round of questions, if I may, because I want to ask the Minister one other question. I will go back to the core funding. In what year, in the Minister's estimation, will we arrive at the point where university core funding will be €307 million or more above that 2022 figure? Does the Minister acknowledge that the longer this goes on, the more the cumulative shortfall over the years is growing and that it is now going to be well over €1 billion on the Government's proposed figures?